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State Dining Room 2:40 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Earlier today, I — I visited a restaurant here in town, Las — I'm going to mispronounce...

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The White House 2:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, two months until July 4th, I’m here to report that we’re — we’re in our vaccination program — where we are and what comes next in an effort to get this country back closer to normal. And first: Where are we? Well, as everyone knows, I promised that we’d administer 100 million shots in my first 100 days. After we met that goal, we doubled it to a — a historic 200 million shots. By the time we reached 100 days last...

far larger economic relief packages through Congress. Customers await their orders at an outpost of Los Tacos No. 1 in New York’s Chelsea Market on Saturday. (Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News) WASHINGTON (CN) — Whetting the public’s appetite for his approach to rebuilding the U.S. economy — two huge new spending bills worth nearly $4 trillion — President Joe Biden touted the start of a new restaurant relief initiative in time for Cinco de Mayo. The restaurant industry has take...

Biden recognizes it will be hard to convince everyone to get vaccinated From CNNs Jason Hoffman President Biden recognized it will be hard to convince all Americans to get vaccinated, however he said he hopes those individuals will be convinced to do so by recognizing the risk they pose to others if they don’t get the vaccine.  “We know were going to get to a place where the doubters exist or the people who just are, I dont want to say lazy, just not sure how to get to where they want to g...

Updated 12:03 AM ET, Wed May 5, 2021 What you need to know India surpassed 20 million Covid-19 cases Tuesday as a second wave of infections continues to paralyze the worlds second-most populous country. Multiple states in India will go into "complete lockdown" in the coming days. Countries in South Asia are taking precautions as Covid-19 cases rise around the region. In the US, Pfizer said it expects to submit for FDA emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 2 to 1...

Holyoke Community College grad overcomes adversity; earns spot in Biden Administration Today 5:01 AM Meghan Maury, a 2004 Holyoke Community College graduate, has been named a senior advisor to the director of the U.S. Census Bureau. (Photo courtesy of Meghan Maury) Facebook Share By Laurie Loisel | Special to The Republican Hours after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, he told nearly 1,000 new White House staff and political appointees, “We work for the people.” This was a pandemic-e...

No application received for a Downing Street refurbishment charity, regulator says Revelations in March alleged that the Conservatives were attempting to set up a charity that could cover the costs of a makeover to the Prime Ministers residence by Stephen Delahunty Sign in to continue Free email bulletins

(YouTube screen capture/The 74 A former official in the Obama administration was charged Tuesday with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a charter school he founded, and using the funds to help finance a luxury apartment in Manhattan. Seth Andrew, who served in the Obama White House and Department of Education, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a series of banking transacti...

(YouTube screen capture/The 74 A former official in the Obama administration was charged Tuesday with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a charter school he founded, and using the funds to help finance a luxury apartment in Manhattan. Seth Andrew, who served in the Obama White House and Department of Education, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a financial institution in connection with a series of banking transacti...